Dopamine Rush

I'm beginning to really like the New York Times extract in each week's Observer newspaper. This week's insert includes an article which claims that information overload is affecting our ability to concentrate...

In 2008 people consumed three times as much information as in 1960, through e-mail and TV.

Some users check their e-mail 37 times per hour, and of course may do this while watching TV.

All this has, unsurprisingly made it difficult to concentrate on making a cup of tea !

CD Sales and Sound Quality

Those people studying the future of the CD might consider a recent article in the New York Times*. Some youngsters have turned against the tinny and thinner sound of the iPod, and become nostalgic about hard-copy cds...

Fidelity of sound compromised by portability and convenience...

Maybe CD sales are not quite dead yet !

Plambeck, J (2010) In the age of music, sound quality falls off, New York Times, Sunday May 23rd [ insert in the Observer 23/05/10 ]